PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 15, 11 October 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. A. Hegman,. of Auckland, maaager of the British and Continental Piano Company, is on a visit to New Plymouth. Mr. H. M. Lyon, for twenty-five years secretary to the Wellington Fire Underwriters' Association, is relinquishing the position on account of ill-health. Mr. D. E. Hutton, N.8.A., art master at the local Technical School, has just received word that he has been admitted to the membership of the North British Academy. The death has occurred at Hokitika of Mr. William Smith, aged seventy-eight years. The deceased was well known on the West Coast, where he had been resident over forty years. On enquiry at the Hospital at midnight, we were informed that there was a slight improvement in the conditioi. of Mr. W. Humphries, who, however, is not yet out of danger. • Mr. Ziinan, of Auckland, Rhodes Scholar in 1908, has been appointed to the Indian Civil Service, and will be stationed in the Bombay Presidency, says a press telegram. Canon Ivens, one of the English missioners at present in New Zealand, will visit New Plymouth to-morrow, and will occupy the pulpit at the mid-week service at St. Mary's in the evening. The Rev. Marmaduke Warner, of St. Thomas's Church, Auckland, has obtained six months' leave of absence, and is now on his way to England on a visit to his mother, who is in ill-health. Mr. Duncan McAllum, who has been for many years associated with public bodies locally, will be a candidate for election to the County Council in succession to the Rev. E. Allanson, resigned. Mr. Gilbert Carson, of Wanganui, has been re-elected unopposed as the representative of the Taranaki, Wanganui, Hawke's Bay, Nelson, Marlborough, Westland and Grey Educational Boards, on the Committee of Advice of the Wellington Training College. Sir Thomas Vezey Strong, Lord Mayor-elect of London, enjoys the distinction of being the first teetotaller chosen for the office. The new Lora Mayor is well known as a strong advocate of temperance, and is also a:i active Good Templar, being a past C.T. of the London Olive Branch Lodge. Captain A. Irvine, pilot and harbormaster at Wanganui for nearly forty years, has resigned. He has a long record of arduous and honorable services, and, to mark its appreciation of these, the Harbor Board has appointed him consulting pilot for twelve months at his present salary. The Board has also decided to call for applications for a successor. Dr. Neligan, who has resigned the See of Auckland, on account of ill-health, conducted his last service in St. Mary's Cathedral, Auckland, on Friday last. The Bishop's resignation took effect as from Saturday. He will leave Auckland on Friday by the s.s. Tongariro, for London, via Wellington. Dr. Neligan will be accompanied by Mrs. Neli»an and familv.

After nearly 40 years' service on the professorial staff of Otago University, Professor Black contemplates retiring from the chair of chemistry in March next. He will then be 77 years of age, and will be entitled to a retiring allowance of £3OO per annum. The professor is still in perfect health, and is verj highly esteemed by hundreds of student's who have passed under his vigorous and exacting methods of teaching.